Cosmic Horror - Blog Posts
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The Other Happy Place: Chapter Zero artbook is crowdfunding RIGHT NOW!
over 50 pages of cosmic horror art! 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
supporting the book helps me be able to make the next part of the project a game and comic!
swordtember 3 • cursed relic
Alr, so this is just expressing my thoughts after reading It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby, as well as after watching an in depth analysis on it.
Honestly, I really really enjoyed this short story, especially as it is in the cosmic horror genre (absolutely one of my favorite genres).
Now, this is the message that I interpreted from the story:
I think there comes a fear in being unable to live. A fear in not being allowed to live. A fear in trying to make the conscious decision to live. And yet what do we do? Often, we take this conscious decision in our daily lives ‐ and we face this fear - knowing that, although unspeakable horrors may yet lie in the ineffable (or something we know and are unable to explain its ineffable consequences), our lives are good because we exist, and even if we're seen as the "bad man" (quote from the story; it could represent a multitude of things, but i see it, in the context of the story, the want to be able to express one's own individualustic desires, thoughts, and creativity), our 'rebellion' from this absurdity is what makes us ultimately human.
yeah looking back on my interpretation, it's definitely absurdist, but hey, absurdism is one of my favorite philosophies, so I'm not complaining!
Anyway, please go read this short story, it soooooooo sooo good it's such a well-written story.
Art by Murray Tinkelman for the Ballantine Books paperback editions of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories.
Annihilation of a mind
Based on the movie Annihilation and DAMIEN I have made this piece.
This took me forever to make, I have a tendency to start projects like this with out finishing them. I'm really happy to have a finished thing to show y'all.
heres a version you can print up your self and cut like a basic 8 page zine if you want your own physical copy though the pages are in a slightly different order
I might try to post some nicer scans later
The empty shells of fallen Dreamers, those caught by the servants of the King in Yellow, tormented and used for horrible experiments still wander the lost city, always seeking for what they lost.
The Dreamer finds herself in Lost Carcosa, and is saved by a cat of Ulthar.
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Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
—"Cassilda's Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2
It may be that I saw the Yellow Sign, but... this is the first of a series of paintings for a project I am working on with @amyma-ymamy. Hope you like it, it is the first city I paint.
As usual, I know nothing.